
Post-
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Winner of the UNT Rilke Prize and the Colorado Book Award for Poetry
The poems of this fourth collection from Wayne Miller exist in the wake of catastrophe. It is a world populated by rogue gunmen on shooting sprees, a world where the only inheritance a father has to pass on is his debt. In this world, every box could be a bomb and what comes after is what is lived. And yet, this painful past is not set in stone. The past becomes the present, yielding toward an immediate future.
The collection coalesces around a series of "post-elegies" triggered by three occurrences: the birth of his child, the death of his father, and his experience of the seeming explosion of sociohistorical and political conflict and violence over the past decade. Throughout this series, Miller processes grief, but also cuts through pain to open up a way forward in the aftermath of shared loss. Post- thrums with pathos and humor, pain and the beauty of living.
"Part stark elegy where the ghosts we carry are relentlessly tied to us, part unrelenting look into today's world of social media, loneliness, and violence, and part fierce celebration of survival, Post- is a gorgeous and complex book of poems that both startles and soothes." -Ada Limón
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Content
- Intro
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- The Debt
- Post-Elegy
- Swallows
- The First Year
- Inside the Book
- The People's History
- House Near the Airport
- Consumers in Rowboat
- Post-Elegy
- Marriage
- The Next Generation
- The Mind Sliding
- Leaving the Hospital
- A Bit about the Soul
- The Affair
- Prayers (w/Answers)
- Report from the Provinces
- Image: Postmodernity
- Post-Elegy
- On Language
- A Breath in the Record
- Allegory of the House
- Post-Elegy
- Landings
- Ballad (American, 21st Century)
- Hoax Bomb
- Some Notes on Human Relations
- Image: Psychotherapy
- 21st Century Museum
- For Harper, 20 Months Old
- Allegory of the Boat
- Post-Elegy
- On Breathing
- Envoi
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
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